Chapter 1482 The Four Irons of Life
On a snow-capped mountain in the Great Azawu Glacier in the Caucasus Mountains, Qiu Yongqing, the commander of the Huben Army Mountain Special Battalion, was looking at everything in front of him affectionately.
At this time, the rolling Caucasus Mountains had entered the cold winter season again, with the lowest temperature dropping to minus 28 degrees Celsius, and it was only one step away from the extremely cold weather of minus 30 degrees Celsius.
The snow-covered snow lines of the Caucasus Mountains are usually 3,200 meters to 3,500 meters above sea level. Now almost the entire mountain is covered with thick snow. Everything has become a world covered with silver.
The Great Azawu Glacier where Qiu Yongqing is standing at this moment is covered with snow all year round, the temperature is very low, and it is not suitable for human habitation. However, the melt water overflowing at the end of the glacier "feeds" hundreds of streams around the people like milk.
The famous Kuban and Telec Rivers in the Caucasus are the sources of these glaciers, which flow from the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea respectively.
Therefore, in people's minds, this is regarded as the source of life and respected as the mother of the snow mountain, which invisibly adds a strong sense of mystery and awe.
In a blink of an eye, Qiu Yongqing led the Hu Ben Army's mountain special camp to the Caucasus Mountains to participate in the war. It has been almost a year since he was arriving at the Caucasus Mountains.
During this year, Qiu Yongqing and others experienced countless life-and-death battles with the German Edelweiss Mountain troops, and they shed blood and tears. But in general, they all made great progress and formed a deep life-and-death friendship with the Soviet Red Army and the Caucasian militia!
Qiu Yongqing and others also made up their minds to fight with the Allied brothers until the last moment until the German mountain troops were completely eliminated in the Caucasus Mountains!
And just yesterday, the General Command of the Hu Ben Army sent a telegram, breaking their plan.
In the telegram, Yang Fan asked Qiu Yongqing and others to arrive in Georgia to assemble within half a month.
There will be special transport aircraft there to take them back to China, and they will have other appointments after returning to China.
At present, the battle in the Caucasus Mountains is still on the surface, but in fact the ending is doomed.
The German mountain troops, which lacked supplies and subsequent reinforcements, are no longer able to compete with the Soviet mountain army, and are showing signs of defeat.
There is really no need for Yang Fan to let Qiu Yongqing and others continue to waste time in this bitter and cold place. It is also time for them to come back to form a mountain force to train the Hu Ben Army and prepare for future mountain combat on the domestic battlefield.
After retracting his thoughts, Qiu Yongqing turned his head to look at the Soviet colonel Jevich who was standing next to him, patted his shoulder affectionately:
"Comrade Jevich, we have fought side by side for countless lives and deaths this year. We really don't want to separate from you. We really want to fight you until all the Nazi fascists are wiped out.
However, our motherland is currently suffering from the scourge of Japanese invaders, and we are going back to fight for our motherland!”
Jevich nodded emotionally and said, "Comrade Qiu Yongqing, thank you very much for your outstanding contributions to the great Soviet. You Chinese soldiers are all good, and the Soviet people will never forget you!
I believe that the ultimate victory must belong to our allies, to the people who love peace and justice, then..."
Although the Hu Ben Army Mountain Special Camp only has 500 or 600 people, the Chinese Hu Ben Army standing behind them is a powerful existence that aims at the whole world.
The Soviet Union is currently inseparable from the transportation fleet of Dongxing Trading Group, and it also has to rely on them to continuously send various military resources into the Murmansk port of the Soviet Union.
For such a powerful teammate, the Soviet Union will naturally show an extremely friendly attitude.
As the direct contact person, Jevich had an important political task, which was to establish a good relationship with Qiu Yongqing and others and try to ensure their safety.
It is also for this reason that Jevich has benefited a lot in the past year and has been promoted from his original rank of major to his rank of colonel.
Now, Qiu Yongqing and others are about to return to China to fight against the war. Jevic is really reluctant to part with them. After all, the four major irons in life are not a joke!
"Comrade Jevich actually doesn't need to be so sad. As long as the earth is round, we will definitely meet again in the future. I firmly believe that on that day, the great Soviet Union and the great China have become independent and prosperous countries!"
Qiu Yongqing rubbed his red eyes, and despite his reluctance, he could only say goodbye with tears in his eyes. Who told me that there is no banquet that never ends in the world?
In a mountainous area dozens of kilometers away, groups of German mountain troops in snow uniforms were climbing forward in the mountains and ridges with great difficulty.
This German mountain force is the Edelweiss Mountain Division, which has been fighting against the Soviet mountain army. However, they are not carrying out military attacks now, but are breaking through the wind and snow to retreat.
With the continuous assistance of the Allied forces, the Soviet Caucasian Front became stronger and stronger, and the German head of state is currently focusing on the Stalingrad War, known as the meat grinder.
The German army's supply and troops in the Caucasus region have long been stretched, and the German mountain division, who was alone, has long cut off supplies.
The attack of Soviet mountain troops was usually in one direction, and the German mountain division could attack everywhere and encircle and annihilate the enemies that attacked their attacks.
But in the end, the German army found miserably that the enemy had more troops than the shells in their hands. Faced with such a situation, the German division commander was not allowed to send a power to the German Command to request a retreat.
However, what made the German Mountain Division commander desperate was that the German head of state ordered them to fight to the last person and would never allow them to retreat.
Obviously, the German head of state orders made them unacceptable.
The commander of the German Mountain Division believed that these surviving veterans had a considerable combat power to Germany. If they were all destroyed in a barren land, then nothing would make any sense.
So under this circumstance, in December 1942, the German mountain division discarded all its heavy equipment and began to break through the back with all its might. After crossing seven mountains in succession, most of the German officers and soldiers were able to successfully break through the encirclement.
As a German mountain division lieutenant described in his diary afterwards: "This breakout battle can be said to be the longest journey in my life.
The enemy is not scary, it is a steep mountain and harsh environment.
After the battle, the division commander made a summary that there is no mountain in the world that can stop us from moving forward.
If so, conquer it and occupy it, and plant a striking crusading flag on the top of the mountain.”
From 1942 to 1943, the German First Mountain Division annihilated more than 30,000 Soviet troops in the battle in the Caucasus, and constrained a Soviet mountain army and a cavalry army, with a total of more than 120,000 people.
However, this powerful German mountain division was eventually defeated by insufficient logistics supply and could only withdraw from the battle in the Caucasus Mountains against the order of the head of state.
Chapter completed!